Senior Associate

**INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT**

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

**What you'll be doing**
- Ensure Group regulatory compliance department’s policies, processes and standard operating procedures are carried out appropriately by accounting and commercial departments.
- Advise the business in structuring transactions through tax technical analysis and providing solutions that are compliant with tax regulations.
- Performing VAT health checks, VAT compliance procedures, issues identification and resolution, and monthly/quarterly VAT return filing covering the Group’s operations in the GCC
- Support with upcoming VAT implementation projects.

Under the supervision of the tax manager, ensure that regulatory compliance department objectives are met
- Escalate complexproblems to the relevant person to ensure case/issue is closed efficiently and in a timely manner
- Perform procedures to ensure core accounting processes of AP, AR, treasury etc. are compliant with VAT / tax / other policies and guidelines set by the Group
- Review transactions and documents to ensure compliance with VAT / tax / other regulations and escalate incorrect treatments
- Demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills
- Represent the Group in communications with tax authorities when required during tax inspections or audits

VAT and tax return preparation and filing,
- Have good accounting knowledgeto support with VAT reconciliations with accounting records Demonstrate good organisational and project management skills
- Work on projects assigned by tax manager to improve compliance scorecard of the Group companies

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- Minimum 3 years of Experience in Taxation.
- Fluency in English Language.
- Excellent communication skills.

**What we can offer you**

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

**We Invite All Applicants to Apply**

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.